A gene can vanish, and life can go on. That is one of the most striking lessons from a sweeping new analysis of 173,303 ...

A human embryo ‘base edited’ so that it can’t produce a key protein (right), fails to form the mass of cells that gives rise ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Center for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome-editing technique ...

Relatively speaking, the least controversial application of human embryo genome editing is to use it to try to prevent ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research has shown that a genome editing technique ...

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human ...

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely.

Could a viral infection you experience today cause mental health disorders for generations of your descendants? Absolutely.

Utz is a science communicator, public historian, and archivist, formerly at the National Human Genome Research Institute. I’d be willing to bet that most of the U.S. population above the age of 35 has ...

UC Santa Cruz has a long history of pioneering advances in genomics research. The first working draft of a human genome sequence was assembled on our campus in 2000, which has led to enormous leaps in ...

The people of Near Oceania carry a genetic legacy that stretches back almost to the beginning of humanity’s expansion across ...